#meaningless

...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#meaningless #void #experience

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#awakens #best #better #conquest #contribution

Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#meaninglessness #life

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#die #i #life #live #meaningful

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#agricultural #around #beauty #bored #doing

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. ↗

— Larry Elder

#battle #common-sense #contest #control #crook

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#both #die #important #life #meaningless

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. ↗

— Russell Brand

#because #being #bizarre #brain #days

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#aim #complaining #could #culture #even

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#dare #died #forgive #his #jesus